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Humans and wild apes share common language
- PaulHoule 4y agoHate to break it to you but all mammals share common body language. That is, they all pay attention to what you are looking at and expect that you will do the same. This is true of cats, dogs, horses, rodents and probably true of some non-mammals such as birds I just don't talk with them very often. How the language of gaze, 'pointing' and such plays out very differently if you are predator or prey but the cues are the same (consider how you can get much closer to a wild animal on horseback than on foot because you get misinterpreted as an herbivore.)